1. Introduction -- 2. Bullion movement to and from Bengal, 1660-1860 -- 3. Woes of the cotton textile industry : competitive failure or policy discrimination? -- 4. Prosperous silk textile industry : traditional edge of comparative advantage -- 5. Decline of the salt manufacturing industry : an...

This article seeks to situate Bengal’s jute industry during the nineteenth century in a global perspective. It was a long-established cottage industry in Bengal that entered into the global market before the advent of jute technologies at Dundee, and grew together with the Dundee mills...

We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for observed outcomes in extensive game forms, in which preferences are unobserved, to be rationalized first, weakly, as a Nash equilibrium and then as the unique subgame-perfect equilibrium. Thus, one could use these conditions to find that play is...

This article seeks to document and analyse various facets of the indigo dye industry in Bengal during 1772-1860. Britain's trade in Indian indigo during 1600-1757 is first dis cussed here briefly to identify why the imperial government in Bengal nurtured the industry's growth against the odds of...